From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Naylor Subject: JT44 on Linux Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:55:53 +0200 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <02081410521905.00798@g4klx> Reply-To: g4klx@qsl.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Hi Folks Long time no see. I am interested in writing an implementation of JT44 for Linux. JT44 is the data mode written by Joe Taylor K1JT for weak signal work like EME and things, it has become hugely popular but the software only runs under Windows at present. Thankfully Joe has published the specification of the mode allowing others to (potentially) copy it. There is another mode called FSK441 which is used for meteor scatter, but I do not aim to implement that until JT44 is operational. It is a relatively simple mode, the transmit side is simply FSK using 44 tones. The receive side is probably a FFT the result of which is used by the software to determine where the clock is and also to use averaging to extract the signal from the noise. The transmit side could probably be adapted from a sound modem implementation that already exists, and could probably be done quite quickly, the receive side is more complex but there are GPL FFT display programs around that could be used as the basis of the receive side. Of course Joe has probably done a few clever things that we will in due course discover, however we will worry about that later. I did send an e-mail to Joe about writing a Linux implementation, but I got no response, however I think that is probably down to him being a busy man. Perhaps once we have some software running then he may take more of an interest in us. Everything that I do will appear under the GPL of course. Jonathan HB9DRD/G4KLX PS has anyone got a good circuit for interfacing a sound card into a radio ?